S is for Slate
Slates might also be referred to as clapboards, clapperboards, clacker, slapperboard, sticks, time slate, or soundmarker.
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V (1983 MINISERIES) VISITOR ALIEN EFFECTS FROM LEO LOTITO JR, WERNER KEPPLER & RICK STRATTON
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“You know, today, Make-Up is not just simply applying flesh colored creams and mascara. Today you absolutely must know much more. You have to understand prosthetics, mechanics, formulas and a little magic doesn’t hurt either. It took us three weeks of experimenting and testing just to decide how we were going to approach some of the complex problems that V presented,” he said. The most difficult situation, Lotito felt, was designing the prosthesis and dummy heads. They had to look realistic when the scenes called for the alien’ characters to eat live rodents.
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